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Selected Verse: Psalms 109:23 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Ps 109:23	Strong Concordance	I am gone [01980] like the shadow [06738] when it declineth [05186]: I am tossed up and down [05287] as the locust [0697].
	King James	I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
like the shadow--(Compare Psa 102:11). tossed up and down--or, "driven" (Exo 10:19).

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

like the shadow--(Compare Psa 102:11).

tossed up and down--or, "driven" (Exo 10:19).

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth - See the notes at Psa 102:11. I am tossed up and down as the locust - Agitated, moved, driven about, as a cloud of locusts is by the wind. The meaning of the whole is, that he was frail and weak, and needed strength from on high.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth - See the notes at Psa 102:11.

I am tossed up and down as the locust - Agitated, moved, driven about, as a cloud of locusts is by the wind. The meaning of the whole is, that he was frail and weak, and needed strength from on high.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
When - Towards the evening, when the sun is setting. The locust - Which is easily driven away with every wind.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

When - Towards the evening, when the sun is setting. The locust - Which is easily driven away with every wind.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
I am gone like the shadow - "I have walked like the declining shadow," - I have passed my meridian of health and life; and as the sun is going below the horizon, so am I about to go under the earth. I am tossed up and down as the locust - When swarms of locusts take wing, and infest the countries in the east, if the wind happen to blow briskly, the swarms are agitated and driven upon each other, so as to appear to be heaved to and fro, or tossed up and down. Dr. Shaw, who has seen this, says it gives a lively idea of the comparisons of the psalmist.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

I am gone like the shadow - "I have walked like the declining shadow," - I have passed my meridian of health and life; and as the sun is going below the horizon, so am I about to go under the earth.

I am tossed up and down as the locust - When swarms of locusts take wing, and infest the countries in the east, if the wind happen to blow briskly, the swarms are agitated and driven upon each other, so as to appear to be heaved to and fro, or tossed up and down. Dr. Shaw, who has seen this, says it gives a lively idea of the comparisons of the psalmist.

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